Undergraduate - Clarion University

Clarion University of Pennsylvania 89ENG 319: Studies in Victorian Literature 3 s.h.Focuses on such poets and essayists as Carlyle, Newman, Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, the Rossettis, and Meredith. Examinesthe current renewal of interest in poetry by women and noncanonical writers. Spring, odd-numbered years.ENG 325: Studies in Early American Literature 3 s.h.Explores various topics in 17 th - and 18 th -century American literature against the backdrop of Puritanism. Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards,Franklin, and Wheatley are among the major figures encountered. Gives attention to the dynamics of molding a distinctively nationalliterature. Spring, even-numbered years.ENG 326: Studies in American Romanticism 3 s.h.Studies a selected group of writers to illustrate their contributions to American art and thought and their relationships with thedevelopment of Romanticism in the first half of the 19 th century. Emphasizes Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, andWhitman. Fall, odd-numbered years.ENG 327: Studies in American Realism and Naturalism 3 s.h.Studies a selected group of writers to illustrate the development of realism and naturalism in American literature in the latter halfof the 19 th century. Emphasizes Twain, James, Howells, Crane, Norris, and Dickinson. Spring, even-numbered years.ENG 328: Studies in American Literature from 1900 to 1945 3 s.h.Examines the period less as a unified site to be “surveyed” in terms of fiction, poetry, and drama than as a problematic field to be studiedin terms of race, gender, and class. Authors include Wharton, Cather, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Hurston, and Faulkner. Fall, annually.ENG 329: Studies in Contemporary American Literature 3 s.h.Investigates the very idea of a canon for American literature since World War II and discusses strategies for reading such representativeauthors as Roth, Coover, Oates, and Morrison. Spring, odd-numbered years.ENG 331: Studies in the African–American Novel 3 s.h.Studies in depth the development of the African-American novel from its origins in the slave narratives to the present. How do African-American novels fit into the larger tradition of African-American literature? What modes of thematic and narrative discourse mark the particularcharacteristics of the African-American novel? Includes Douglass, Chesnutt, McKay, Hurston, Wright, Ellison, Reed, Walker, and Morrison.ENG 332: 19 th -Century British Novel 3 s.h.Explores the English novel from Austen to Hardy. Nine or ten novels are studied with selections from Austen, Scott, Eliot, Dickens,Thackeray, Disraeli, Meredith, Trollope, the Brontes, Gaskell. No prerequisite; however, one semester of English literature survey(ENG 221 or 222) is recommended. Fall, even-numbered years.ENG 334: Modern British Literature 3 s.h.Examines the relationship between social and cultural change and the creation of literature and theory in British literature from1900 to the close of World War II. Provides an opportunity to compare genres and to study key literary movements. No prerequisite.One semester of ENG 221 or 222 is recommended. Spring, even-numbered years.ENG 335: Contemporary British Literature 3 s.h.Examines British literature produced from the end of World War II to the present. Provides an opportunity to compare genres andto study significant literary and cultural movements. No prerequisite. One semester of ENG 221 or 222 is recommended. Spring,odd-numbered years.ENG 339: Short Stories 3 s.h.Traces the evolution of the short story from the 19 th century to the present. Elements such as plot, character, theme, style, and pointof view are studied. Readings are drawn from a variety of writers representing a diversity of cultures: Poe, deMaupassant, Chopin,Gilman, Faulkner, Ellison, Kafka, Hurston, Fuentes, Lessing, Silko, Walker, and LeGuin. Spring, annually.ENG 341: 20 th -Century Poetry 3 s.h.Provides explication and discussion of works by such writers as Yeats, Frost, Eliot, Plath, L. Hughes, Auden, Brooks, and Rich.Fall, odd-numbered years.ENG 342: English Drama to 1642 3 s.h.Presents an overview of English drama in its first two phases, Medieval and Renaissance (non-Shakespearean). Includes literary,theatrical, and cultural studies. No prerequisite. Fall, odd-numbered years.ENG 343: English Drama from 1660 to 1850 3 s.h.Presents some of the major forms of drama in this extremely varied 200-year period, with possible focuses on heroic tragedy,Restoration comedy, sentimental comedy, Victorian melodrama, and the precursors of modern English drama. No prerequisite. Fall,even-numbered years.ENG 344: Modern Drama to 1950 3 s.h.Surveys influential dramatic literature of the Continental, British, and American theater from 1850 to 1950 through lectures,discussion, and experiences related to the modern stage. No prerequisite. Spring, even-numbered years.ENG 345: Contemporary Drama 3 s.h.Explores the diversity and vitality of British, American, and World theater since 1950 through selected texts and theatrical experiences.No prerequisite. Spring, odd-numbered years.ENG 350: Movie Genres 3 s.h.Explores genre as sets of narrative conventions that have vitalized American movies. Demonstrates genre to be a socializing force aswell as a mirror of social change. Considers representations of race, gender, and class in various genres. Spring, odd-numbered years.ENG/ANTH 352: Topics in Folklore 3 s.h.Provides intensive study of one or more aspects of folklore. Focuses on one or more folk groups, a particular folk genre, folklore andpopular culture, or folklore and literature. Provides students with fieldwork experience—collection, transcription, classification—andmethods of analysis of oral traditions. No prerequisite. Spring, annually.pages i-viiCollege of Artsand Sciences